In Croatia, Vrhovški families are Croats (from Sveti Ivan Zelina ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Sveti Ivan Zelina and Zagreb. In Mokrica Tomaševečka in Sveti Ivan Zelina every ninth inhabitant had the family name Vrhovški.
Prevalence
About 10 people with faimily name Vrhovški live in Croatia today, in four households only. There were 10 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number remains constant. They are located in only four Croatian places: in Zagreb (<5), Mokrica Tomasevecka (<5), Donja Bistra in Oroslavje area (<5), and in Gornja Plemenscina (<5).
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over ten times, the first time 1906 in source Yearbook and Directory of Literary Society of St. Jerome 1906.